It dried up Saturday afternoon, and was perfect Christmas weather to check out the Stockton Street closure from O’Farrell to Post Streets. I was able to get some r.f.m.u. shots (reasonable facsimile match ups) of vintage photos of the two block stretch from UC Berkley and San Francisco Main Libraries Archives. (Thumbnail images)
Looking north from Geary to Post Streets: This was as close of a lineup I could from the Neiman Marcus Restaurant. All of the buildings along Post Street at the top have been demolished, except for the Bullock and Jones Building with the arched windows in the top row that may have been featured in the 1948 film noir, ‘Race Street’. (See December 13, 2019)
The walk stretches from here at O’Farrell and Stockton Streets…..
…..to here at Post and Stockton. “Don’t worry, fellow, it’s only a camera.” Of course, he did have to insult my photographic capabilities by saying, “Well, just as long as there isn’t any film in it.”
Can’t leave out the beloved City of Paris Department Store, in a photo taken probably shortly before it was demolished in 1979:
Airline strikers at Maiden Lane:
Looking north toward the old Sutter Medical Building and the Hotel Plaza where the Apple Building is now:
The intersection of Geary and Stockton in 1909:
Streetcars rumbling through Geary and Stockton Streets:
San Francisco Film Locations Then & Now 
Surviving Canary Island date palm trees seem to be as numerous as surviving buildings. (I still can not get one in the newer picture to match itself in the older picture, as if it replaced the original, but just a few feet off.)